A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -68.874 West, latitude 19.0715 North, depth = 150 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/08/15 / 2015-08-01 07:41:43 / August 1, 2015 @ 7:41 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15213010. Unique identifier: pr15213010. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 150 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 03:41:43 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Llanos, San Pedro de Macorís, Quisqueya (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km ENE of Miches, Dominican Republic.
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